Dr. Anthony Fauci is testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on the origins of COVID-19 and the federal response to the pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci began his opening statement by discussing his experience with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He then went on to dispute some accusations made against him relating to the theory that COVID-19 stemmed from a lab in Wuhan, China. Fauci explained that he spoke with many scientists around the globe about the lab leak theory and always kept an “open mind.”
“The accusation being circulated that I influenced these scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous,” Fauci said.
Fauci also addressed accusations that he attempted to cover-up the theory that the virus originated from a lab and said, “in fact, the truth is exactly the opposite.”
“I have always kept an open mind to the different possibilities,” he said after reading an email he sent to a fellow scientists about the possibility of the virus originating from a lab.
安东尼·福奇博士正在众议院监督和问责委员会就 COVID-19 的起源和联邦政府对疫情的应对措施作证。
安东尼·福奇博士在开场发言中首先讨论了他在美国国家过敏和传染病研究所 (NIAID) 的工作经历以及他对 COVID-19 疫情的处理。
随后，他继续反驳针对他的一些指控，这些指控与 COVID-19 源自中国武汉实验室的理论有关。福奇解释说，他与全球许多科学家讨论了实验室泄漏理论，并始终保持“开放的心态”。
福奇说，“有人指控我通过向这些科学家贿赂数百万美元的资金来影响他们改变想法，这绝对是错误的，简直是荒谬的。”
福奇还回应了有关他试图掩盖病毒源自实验室的理论的指控，并表示“事实恰恰相反。”
在阅读了一封他发给一位科学家同事的关于病毒可能源自实验室的电子邮件后，他说：“我始终对各种可能性持开放态度。”
